The Pragmatics of Double Negation in the English Language

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The article examines grammatical and ungrammatical types of double negation using examples of oral statements taken from BNC. It is shown that grammatical statements with double negation have pragmatic limitations, whereas non-normative statements with agreement on negativity have no such restrictions. A number of meanings depending on communicative and pragmatic conditions have been identified in statements containing the construction “not + adjective with a negative prefix”.

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Olga Smurova

Moscow State Linguistic University

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Email: olsmurova@yandex.ru

PhD (Philology), Assistant Professor at the Department of Grammar and History of the English Language, Faculty of the English language

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